Bill Text: TX SJR49 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment on professional sports team charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-16 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR49 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SJR49-Introduced.html

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85R10010 DMS-D
By: Hinojosa S.J.R. No. 49

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment on professional sports team
charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 47(d-1), Article III, Texas
Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
(d-1) The legislature by general law may permit a
professional sports team charitable foundation to conduct
charitable raffles under the terms and conditions imposed by
general law. The law may authorize the charitable foundation to pay
with the raffle proceeds reasonable advertising, promotional, and
administrative expenses. A law enacted under this subsection
applies [may apply] only to an entity [that is] defined as a
professional sports team charitable foundation under that law [on
January 1, 2016,] and may only allow charitable raffles to be
conducted at games hosted at the home venue of the professional
sports team associated with a professional sports team charitable
foundation.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment on professional sports
team charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles."